Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Turn as high as you can?there's no danger?as low as you please ?there's no smell. That's because the smokeless device prevents smoke or smell? that means a steady flow of glowing heat for every ounce of fuel burned in a OD Heater (Equipped with Smokeless Device) You can carry it about and care for it just as easily as a lamp. Brass oil font holds 4 quarts burning 9 hours. Handsomely fin ished in japan and nickel. Every heater warranted. !^&Lamprf,htC winter evenings. Steady, brilliant light to read, sew or knit by. Made of brass, nickel plated, latest improved central draft burner. Every lamp waTanted. If your dealer can not supply Perfection Oil Heater or Rayo Lamp write cur nearest agency for descriptive circular. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (Incorporated) mm mmoRnranf Thousands of ladies suffer agonies every month. I If you do, stop and th ink. Is i t natural ? Emphati cally and positively?NO! Then make up your mind to prevent or cure this needless suffering! It Win Help You J 32 "I suffered 9 years" writes Mrs. Sarah J. Hos kins, of Cary, Ky. '' I had female trouhle and would nearly cramp to death. My back and side would nearly kill me with pain. I tried cver^hing to get relief, but failed, and at last began to 'take Cardui. Now I can do my housework writh case and I give Cardui the praise for the health I enjoy." Try. AT ALL DRUG- STORES THE MONITOR SELF-HEATING SAD IRON. The .Monitor is a perfect Self-Heat ing Sad Iron. .Generates its own beat in the body of the iron. Always hot and you can regulate it to any tem perature- desired. No firing up the range ?you heat the house. No walking from the ironing table to the hot range to change irons and back again, therefore saving labor, work that is most disagercablc on a hot summer day. \iu can do an iron ing for the COSt of about one cent for fuel, saving many dollars in a year; can take your ironing to any room in the house or out mi the porch if you choose?that which eveiy woman 1ms sighed for many times. .Can iron all day without the least un comfor tableness from the heat of the iron. Can put it in your suit case or trunk and take it along when traveling to press the muss and wrinkles out ol clothing, ribbons, etc. Oradgeburg Hardware & Furniture Co. Stop in and see our up-to-date i line. of Cloaks full 3-4 length $0.00 to $7.00 and $9.00. We can save, you from $2.00 to to $2.50 on each Cloak. See our styles and prices before buying. We give cash cou pons with each purchaser. PIKE'S ol AU Kind* on Yob coo 5.-? ?II i}>* hoot, rm neod by o?r p!tn Writ- for (hot ' "A Book More in your home." It i, (rr*. W^te W, fu.rnnl-r qu.lify too* volur. Ouf prw?. (a, u.we.i. Wni, ior catuloc. Ii i. free. n- 'inm nol ,?-d.r B?ok kcu.e u lU world. 4? ,t.r. i. buo.no.?. 0?pl TU 71 IHE F8AM(Lia-I?8.1tR CO., W-71 i?> Su, Atlanta, 6a r'APER rt> I ItOI \\ II. I ? ?? > VtT< !n!;.ut ?vtsii ir Ii in ' !??:! ,Mi is (i - school houses. ''? <?: ;ii) , inci i ill pel eil < hei ?c |M.'0|>|?! may still sho'v H>uiiueii<h(!iie ?? iicutiinal purpose s< 1.(1. - ? ? t i;. child t i-chooi i ! ? seh? oir uii in sessiuu. rh ?:? ? ?!. in Olli uf ii vei.. i' 'he children iit kii ii regularly and with the pur I ?? of gel i::g the most possible ont I t How are ihe white children Soutii Carolina attending the iiiOls'' i" :!<"7. tue Ahite enreli .ii in the public schools ol th. ite was 144.668, while the average ridanci ^:is only 103.304. Th< era! census taken seven years be re 15)00. nives South Carolin. 7.972 white children between the o-s of 5 and 20 years, while ou: I *al school age is between 6 and 1 years. It is safe to assert that I irely sixty per cent of the white illdren of the State are enrolled in iy kind of a scnool, and not ove: j >rty per cent are in average atten mce. In 1900, thirty-six per cent I :' the white children between tin j ges of 10 and 14 years were n >t j nrolled in any school, public o: I irivate. In the same year Massachu ?tts had oa!y six per cent of hei hjte children of tue corresponding ? Hes out of school, Connecticut hai seven per cent, and Michigan eigii j per cent. In l!ioO. South Carolina Lad 54", 177 native while illiterates over ] e /cars of age, only 70Z fewer white [literates than the State had in ISTO, thirty years previous. At the I <anie date Connecticut, with nearly wice the white population of South Carolina, had but 1,958 white illit erates over 10 years of age. Again, outh Carolina had 15.C43 native vhite illiterates of the voting age; 'oiie Island, with four-fifths the lopulation of South Carolina, had ust 550. We had 17,839 native vhite illiterates between the ages if 10 and 19 years; Michigan, with wice our population, had 1,141; 3onnectlvut had 140, and Rhode J Island 100. Is it reasonable to hope for the South Carolina of tomorrow, J with her load of helpless illiterates. ?o cope successfully with those States j and sections which have freed thern I selves from the bondage of igno j ranee? '1 he day is forever gone from j South Carolina when a few highly trained men of leisure could direct and control the destinies of the peo ple. This responsibility has been shifted to the shoulders of the mnss I es, and now we are forced to con ? sider the training of the masses. Ouly yesterday Hon. O. B. Martin gave out this: "Several educa tional leaders in New England frank ly told us that they are spending I their money and building up their I schools in order to retain and main j tain their industrial supremacy, j They realized that we have advan I tages and great resources in the j South, but they propose to keep thv j lead, if j possible, through the power J of trained brains and trained hands ' I Intelligence and skill will win every I rime In every race. What is Sout'i j Carolina doing to meet this open I challenge from New England? Who are these South Carolina I white children not in school, and J why are they not in school? Soni* j are the sons and daughters of parents j themselves ignorant and unable to j appreciate or to understand what education means to their children ind to the State; soni" are children '?f fathers and mothers, greedy an! -elfish, who are more than willing to make wage-earners and bread winners out of their young untaught offspring; a few are the children of parents opposed to education, be cause they have known some edu cated scoundrels; a very few are ?he children of parents who actually need the labor of their children tr eko out a living, and many are tin children of fathers engrossed in ma cerial ailairs and mothers recreant 'o duiy. Many of these children are it work on the farm, in stores and ?shops at a few cents a day, and in ho cotton mills making good wages for children, while hundreds of oth ers are roaming the streets and coun try lanes?the training grouns for idlers, vagrauts, ami enemies to law. order, and decency. WHICH IS] MC FIRE INSURANCE. Important? Yon fully realize It. Vou would not allow your house to remain uninsured overnight. Your house may never burn. Com j parativcly few buildings ever do. j If your house does burni your prop; jcrty is destroyed, you can still provide for your loved ones. Your ncome remains unaffected, your earn ing capacity unimpaired. If your house Is not insured at all, or for an insufficient amount. YOU CARRY THE niSK. Your friend has had his home In sured these 30 years, and uas had no Are. lie has been fortunate in that though he has nothing now to show for the money paid out. wnicH is JOHN ? 18 E. Russell St., Aficnt for SOUTHEASTERN LIFE IN NO. 8. g Li AM IL HAND., | Two of the worst enemies to child liood and youth are overwork and idleness. Close confinement at man nal labor is dulling, stifling, and de structive :to the childhood; idleness] is poisonous and ruinous to youth. Attendance upon school may be us.'J as a corrective for both evils. Th<2 State, in order to protect at leasi one> class of children against over-l work, has passed a child labor law. Barring some notable exceptions, the) abortiveness of that law is a common jest. To illustrate: In 1905, one of our city school superintendent-. I lost more than twenty pupils from | >ne school within two months. In "ompany with one of the cotton mi'l superintendent of that town (a man in favor of schools), the school su perintendent went from house to house in the mill village enquiring for these missing children. In one afternoon he located twelve of them,] .every one of them unlawfully en gaged at work in the mill, though only three of their names appeared on the pay-roll. Now, the child of the lazy, greedy, selfish parent is at work, und not in school. The child of the igno-| rant and indifferent parent is neither| it work nor in school: ho is idling. Moth children need tu in; educated* he State needs both of them; and "he Stare has aiready decreed that he taxpayers shall establish and maintain schools for both. There remain-; '.nit. one logical thing to do | ?compel the parents of both to send their children to school. There |s| bat little logic in compelling peop.o to pay taxes to support the schools, then permitting the parents of the children who most need the schooh deliberately to keep them from the benefits of the schools. The poorer the child the more is the ne?d fr-r compelling his parents to send him to school. Compulsory attendance laws are aimed at the selfish and in different parent, not at the child. Of what advantage are good teach ers, lonu. school terms, and fine school houses, unless the children attend the schools? In a recent elec tion to increase the local school tax in a district in North Carolina, where they have recently enactel a kinj of local option compulsory law, a certain taxpayer made this declara tion: "If you vote to compel the children of this district to go to school, increase any tax as - you please; if you are not going to put the children into the schools, I am opposed to any further tax." That man's argument has no answer. Some opponent to a compulsory law Eays, "You have not enoug.i school houses and teachers to taka care of the thousands of children not in school." That argument Is. worthless, unless we are willing t<. admit that tho white people of thai State are actually unable to take) care of their children. Let some philanthropist offer to aid Sout'a Carolina in matters educational, then you get an answer to that ques tion. Will the school houses ever be built or the teachers employed until there is a need for then'..' Would it be wise for a farmer to let a $n00-crop waste in the fields, rath er than build $100-house iu which to store it? The last argument of 'ho oppo nents to coinpusory attendance that it can not be enforced without truant officers, and that truant of ficers must be paid . Certainly. Th present child labor law of this State is a dead letter, because no provis ion is made for its enforcenn nt. Am! the police of Charleston. Columbia, and other places, have to be paid, but it pays to pay them. Wo an; perfectly willing to pay an ot!lc4r| ctf the law to arrest little neuro] boy.- in a 10-ccnt crap game, but i: is too much to pay an officer of 'he law to see that a lazy selfish rather sends his child to school. We are paying today in actual money every year live times as much in trioule to the industrial supremacy of New England ami other section.-, as ii would cost us to put every white child in ti ?? S'.at" in school for six monih.s in the year! What econ omists we are! And what philoso phers we try to be! WILLIAM II. HAND. University nf South c.'-^i'et )RE URGENT? , I.IKK INSURANCE. Important? Oh yes, you Intend tc insure after awhile when "a llttli better able to do so." You will surely (!ie. AM men do j You are more likely to die within * .week or a year, tliaa yauv house i? to burn. Death destroys at once and irro |vocably, in whole or in part the In come that provided for the dallj wants of those you love, the Incomt thai was counted on to feed auc clothe ate.] educate your chldren. If your life is not insured at all or for an insufficient amount, Your Wife and Babies Carry the Risk Your frend has had his life in sured these 30 years and is now ac [old man. He Is fortunate In having jlived. and he has something now to I show for the money paid out. H? .cosh value affords a comfortable sup I port for his own declining years. MORE URGENT? GELZER Orangeburg, S. C 9URANCE CO., Spartanburg, S. a ritOCij.-i..tATJOA. State of South Carolina. Executive Department. WHEREAS, Petitions signed by more than one-third of the qualified electors of those portions of Aiken, Lexington and Orangeburg Counties proposed to be cut off to form the new county (commonly known ns Edisto County) and embraced in th? following lines, to-wit: Beginning "at a point about on?j mile below Merritt's Bridge at Driiry's Bluff on South Edisto Rive:-, Aiken County, thence north to ; point on the east boundary of right of way of Two Notch Road, where said road cresses Nolen Brandl, tlience the eastern boundary of said road to Southern Railway, crossing near Samaria Church, Lexington County, thence a direct line to the Jones' New Mill on Black CreeV. thence a direct line to a point half fhile south of the residence of J. E. Dunbar, thence a direct line to Daniel Hutto Mill oh Cedar Creek, thence along the southern boundary of right of way of Waters Ferry Road to the Hooker Pond, thence down Sa-1 lern Branch to North Edisto River Orangeburg County, from mouth of said branch to a direct line to old Jack Pond on little Beaver Creek, thence a direct line to 21 mile poyt on Ninety-Six Road, thence a direct line to Tampa Mill on east Good Land Creek, thence a direct line to 149 mile post on Southern Railroad, thence a direct line to Stroman's Mill | on Dean swamp, thence down Dean Swamp Creek to South Edisto River, thence up said river to point of be ginning," wore tiled with me as Gov ernor of the State, asking that said portion of those counties be permit-) ted to vote on the establishment of a new county. AND WHEREAS, The boundarie? of tl?' proposed new county, the num ber of inhabitants, the taxable prop erty, as shown by the last tax ro turns, and that the proposed lines do not run nearer than eight mile? to any court house now established, are also set forth in said petition. AND WHEREAS, The report of a majority of the commission ap pointed by me to ascertain the facts as provided for in the Acts of 1905 as to whether the requirements of the Constitution as to area, distance, wealth, population, et celra, have been complied with, has been filed, stating that the law had been fully complied with, and the ni:::i!>s-r of s(|uare miles in the proposed new. county (commonly known as Edisto County) is four hndred and twenty six HL'6) square miles, leaving to the County of Aiken more than five hundred (600) square miles, to the County of Lexington more than five hundred (GOO) square miles and to the County of Orangeburg more than five hundred (500) square miles. NOW THEREFORE, I, M. F. An sel, as Govoronr of the State of South Carolina, by virtue of the pow er conferred upon me by the Con stitution and laws of this State, do hereby order? 1. That an election be held In the territory embraced within the proposed new county on the fiteenti day of December, A. D. 190S, upon the question of creating the said new county, and that, at such election, the qualified electors within the pro posed area shall be allowed to vote upon said question, those favoring the proposed new county to vote '"Yes" artd those opposed to vote "No." L\ That the commlsisbncrs of State and county elections of the Counties of Aiken. Lexington and Or nngeburg respectively shall make all necessary arrangements for holding said election, shall appoint managers and do all oilier things necessary for the holding of said election; thai the county supervisors of the said coun ties respectively shall have prepared printed tickets and furnish same I i the commissioners cf election to he sent, out to the managers of election for the use of the voters. ::. That at the said election the question of a name and county seat for such county shall also be sub mitted to tin.' said qualified elector-:. 4. That said elect ion shall h 1 held under the same rules and reg ulations as are provided by law for regular county elections; that Hie managers shall be sworn before en tering upon the discharge of their duties and shall open the polls :it seven o'clock in tin* morning and keep the same open until four o'clock in the afternoon, when (lie polls shall be closed, the votes counted, a return of the number of votes poll ed for and against, signed and cor-) lifted to by the managers of dec-! lion which, together with the ballot },'.):<. ballots and poll list, shall be turned over to the commissioners of election, as required by law; th.il the commissioners of dortibn shnil Lheu, as now r quired by law, t:'.!;ti late the vote and make return there of to the Governor of the State ami to (he Socr? lary of State ! '.'>'?? a . ?? l'A\ ? ? . . ? ? I Cu i ,\i .:. :. : i ? ? ? ? : ?? ? IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF. ! have here im! ? l my hand and can? ( d the GSeal ol the St;>te to ? ufiixed ?' Columbia I.Iiis sewiUtiuHtb day of Octoi.er \u tie- of rilir Lord One Thousand Nine II und red an ! Eight and in tin- ludep< ndeneo of the I'niled Slates of America the one hundred and thirty-third. M. F. ANSEL, By ilf Governor: Governor. Excellent Health Advice. Mrs. M. M. Dnvison, of No. .'>.':? Gilford Ave., San Jose, Gal., says: "The worth of Electric Bitters as a general family remedy, for head ache, biliousness and torpor of the liver and Irowels is so pronounced that I am prompted to say a word in its favor, for the benefit of those seeking relief from such nfllictions. There Is more health for the diges tive organs in a bottle of Electric Bitters than iu any other remedy I know of." Sold under guarantee at J. G. Wanuamaker's drug store. GOc. Feel toaa To Day? How's your stomach? Sour?weak?nervous?shaky? Bad taste? Last night's dinner didn't agree? Well, just step over to the drug store and get a bottle of For Indigestion and Dyspepsia Take a good, liberal dose, and you will l>e surprised how good it will make you feel Kodol makes weak stomachs strong. Kodol is pleasant and palatable. Kodol digests all the food you eat Keeps the Stomach Sweet j AT THIS STORE. ? ?eep Yunr Eyes en Our Big Show Window and Get Some of the f SPECIAL VALUES. Each Friday We Will IT (he PRICE of a Useful Article. Something x Different Each Week. W Goods oo Exhibition Monday. Bat } Not Sold Until Friday ! PRICES ON FURNIT"R? 9 ALWAYS LOWEST HERE. f Wannamaker, Smoak & Co. FIRE, LIFE, BUROLRAY, TORNADO oo ALSO V ] "W j'i t t k n fc v 0 I 9 ? 9 0 9 o s ? 9 s * ^ I repiestEt companies that's knew to be good, ^ Give me some of vour business. V i>R - TAB LETS-iNR 7 : CU R ES CO NSTI PAT! ON, ^DYSPEPSIA, RH EU MATISM, k:|f ?? ' '1^^^, Better Than Pills - take one For, Liver Ills. /TQ-N1GKT . Wjg^gSjm ?> youllfeel *//f 4*^$ Get a 25d. Box ? ?' SETTER ? S%>" Jg' ' IN THE MORNING -w Sold Everywhere. AJ8.?WIS MEDICINE OO^SUOUIS^